Nossos homens teriam se rendido se a guerra durassse mais 10 dias.
Jul. 31, 2007 22:15 | Updated Jul. 31, 2007 22:20
'Our men would surrender if the war lasted 10 more days'
By JPOST.COM STAFF
"The ceasefire acted as a lifejacket for the organization [at the end of the Second Lebanon War]," said a Hizbullah officer in an interview.
In a transcript of the interview, aired by Israeli Channel 10 Tuesday, the unnamed officer said that Hizbullah gunmen would have surrender had the fighting gone on for ten days longer than it did.
The officer's statements sharply contrast with utterances made by Hizbullah leader Hassan Nassrallah in several televised speeches since the end of the war.
Nassrallah has claimed that his organization had replenished its rocket arsenal and began redeploying in the south of Lebanon.
At the end of the war, Nassrallah claimed his organization had scored a "divine victory."
According to the Channel 10 transcript, the officer said the organization's gunmen were running low on food and drink and facing rapidly diminishing arms supplies during the war.
The officer also said that many Hizbullah commanders were ordered to hide before the war started, while gunmen who remained were forced to fire Katyusha rockets from within urban populations because of the IDF's efficiency in destroying launchers only minutes after a launch had been detected.
He said that once gunmen relocated into cities and villages, they knew civilians not taking part in the fighting would be hurt as a consequence.
The quick arrival of IAF jets at launch sites, sometimes only four to five minutes after a Katyusha was fired, "surprised" Hizbullah, the officer said.
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